Avaliação da implementação do sistema Toyota de produção nas empresas: em busca da sustentabilidade do sistema

Abstract

The Toyota Production System and its variants of lean production methods have achieved excellent results in several case studies of its partial implementation in companies of various industries. This academic work presents a study of the real sustainability, over time, these concepts and lean production methods in companies, in a comparative analysis with sustainability found in Toyota, company founder and one of the ones that apply all the concepts with a long-term vision, not only focused on immediate improvements and superficial implementations. Through a quantitative research based on Systematized Literature Review method, among other findings it was found that most companies cannot sustain the improvements obtained initially because not understand the philosophy of continuous improvement as Toyota understands, performing a real systemic and organic approach of the entire production process.